In a series of posts on this blog, we have shown how practically everything our parents took for granted with regards to privacy has…
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Privacy
Analog Equivalent Rights (20/21): Your analog boss couldn’t read your mail, ever
Slack has updated its Terms of Service to let your manager read your private conversations in private channels. Our analog parents would have been…
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Analog Equivalent Rights (19/21): Telescreens in our Living Rooms
The dystopic stories of the 1950s said the government would install cameras in our homes, with the government listening in and watching us at…
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Analog Equivalent Rights (18/21): Our analog parents had private conversations, both in public and at home
Our parents, at least in the Western world, had a right to hold private conversations face-to-face, whether out in public or in the sanctity…
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Analog Equivalent Rights (17/21): The Previous Inviolability of Diaries
For our analog parents, a diary or a personal letter could rarely be touched by authorities, not even by law enforcement searching for evidence…
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Analog Equivalent Rights (16/21): Retroactive surveillance of all our children
In the analog world of our parents, it was absolutely unthinkable that the government would demand to know every footstep you took, every phonecall…
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Analog Equivalent Rights (15/21): Our digital children’s conversations are muted on a per-topic basis
At worst, our analog parents could be prevented from meeting each other. Our digital children are prevented from talking about particular subjects, once the…
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Analog Equivalent Rights (14/21): Our analog parents’ dating preferences weren’t tracked, recorded, and cataloged
Our analog parents’ dating preferences were considered a most private of matters. For our digital children, their dating preferences is a wholesale harvesting opportunity…
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Analog Equivalent Rights (13/21): Our digital children are tracked not just in everything they buy, but in what they DON’T buy
We’ve seen how our digital children’s privacy is violated in everything they buy with cash or credit, in a way our analog parents would…
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Analog Equivalent Rights (12/21): Our parents bought things untracked, their footsteps in store weren’t recorded
In the last article, we focused on how people are tracked today when using credit cards instead of cash. But few pay attention to…
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